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In "Community Fire," Zhang Xiao photographs the Chinese Spring Festival Shehuo, looking at how a tradition has transformed into an enterprise.

Zhang Xiao looks at rural life during Lunar New Year celebrations in northern China.

History, To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring  Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes.  This book is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes—men and women of African descent who were enslaved in South Carolina. The conversation will feature four extraordinary scholars; I lisa Barbash, Deborah Willis, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. This important conversation will delve into the daguerreotypes that were made by photographer Joseph T. Zealy for Harvard professor Louis Agassiz in 1850 and were rediscovered at the ...

A little over month ago, I found myself traveling to rural Anhui province. Coal+Ice, the documentary photography exhibition I had produced for Asia Society, had been invited to exhibit at the Yixian International Photography Festival. Logistically, this exhibit proved a daunting feat. Fifteen massive crates of photographs were driven all day from Beijing to Pingshan Village, where the power of ten men would carry each crate 500 meters down a rocky hill to the exhibition space, an ancestral hall that dates to the late Ming dynasty. I calculated our exhibition’s wattage needs and we borrowed ...

Celebrate Women's History Month with the best movies directed by women from the past 20 years: The films that entertained, transported us, and broke new ground.